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Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...
The construction of the boneshaker was similar to the dandy horse: wooden wheels with iron tires and a framework of wrought iron. As the name implies it was extremely uncomfortable, but the discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by a long flat spring that supported the saddle and absorbed some of the shocks from rough road surfaces.
White Horse Tavern (Douglassville, Pennsylvania) Douglassville: 1780 Tavern The building operated as a tavern for 90 years until it was converted into a three-family residence in 1870. In 1971, the building was restored and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Van Leer Pleasant Hill Plantation
Location of Bucks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Belmont is a historic home located at Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1850, and is an L-shaped, 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 -story, stuccoed stone dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a hipped roof and features a one-story, wraparound verandah .
In 1888 the two-person tandem bicycle was invented. Velocipede was an early term for any kind of carriage driven by the feet, and the term encompassed bicycles and tricycles and the dandy-horse. The term velocipede was first used in France around the end of the 18th century.
The Red Lion Inn was a historic inn located near the Red Lion Bridge just outside Philadelphia in Andalusia, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The inn, the first public house in the area, was located on the King's Highway (now Bristol Pike) at the bridge across Poquessing Creek .
Rockwood Hall: 1886: Elizabethan: Gervase Wheeler (1849 house) Ebenezer L. Roberts and Carrère and Hastings (c. 1890 renovation) Mount Pleasant: It was the second-largest house in the U.S.; Demolished c. 1941 [53] Reid Hall: 1892 Romanesque and medieval Stanford White: Purchase: Was built for Whitelaw Reid, Is part of the Manhattanville ...